Overview
- Harris County charged Kip Stitts, 57, with murder in the Nov. 5, 2025 shooting at a storage facility along the Eastex Freeway, and records show he is not in custody.
- Prosecutors cited prior convictions for drug offenses and assaults in their bond request, according to court filings.
- The victim was identified as 33-year-old Sherry Dawson, who was found shot multiple times after arriving to pick up items from her partner’s unit.
- Court documents describe a disputed $125,000 cocaine payment involving Dawson’s common-law husband, who told investigators he worked as a middleman and believed the killing was retaliation.
- Investigators point to surveillance video of a truck tailing Dawson and a struggle, phone data placing Stitts at the scene and showing him back in Detroit the next day, and a Ford F-250 believed to have been purchased in Beaumont days earlier.